Add Stars to your Night Sky in Photoshop

Add stars to your photos with Photoshop! I show you how to create stars in Photoshop, how to add a glow and color to the stars, and how to blend the stars with your images! There's nothing quite like being outdoors at night, looking up at a clear sky, and seeing an endless field of stars stretching off in all directions. And there are few things as frustrating as trying to capture those stars with your camera. Competing lights from the city or other nearby sources can throw off the exposure and push your stars into darkness. And capturing that faint star light with long exposures often results in a blurry mess.

Thankfully, as I show you in this tutorial, adding stars to your images with Photoshop is easy! And since we're creating the stars ourselves, we have complete control over just how "starry" the sky appears. In fact, the techniques we'll be learning here are the same ones used to create star-filled backgrounds in movies. So while the results probably won't fool any astronomers in the family, this star effect is more than realistic enough for pretty much everyone else.

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► Video chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:16 Add a new layer for the stars
0:41 Fill the new layer with black
0:56 Add noise with the Add Noise filter
1:19 Blur the noise with Gaussian Blur
1:37 Turn the noise into stars with Levels
2:23 Make a copy of the stars layer
2:45 Add more blurring with Gaussian Blur
3:03 Brighten the stars with Auto Contrast
3:09 Lower the layer opacity
3:32 Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer
4:00 Select "Colorize" and set the Hue to 220
4:18 Change the layer blend mode to Color
4:29 Make a copy of the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer
4:46 Change the Hue value to 40
4:56 Apply the Clouds filter to the layer mask
6:22 How to view the layer mask in the document
6:53 Place all four layers into a layer group
7:33 Change the group's blend mode to Lighten or Screen
8:12 Add a layer mask to the group
8:31 Paint with black to hide the stars
9:24 How to fix a mistake
9:41 Clean up the edges

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